Ive been using Private Trackers and the speeds are great and all, but some times Public Trackers (e.g mininova) have something no Private Tracker does, but speeds there jsut seem to be utter crap. so I've decided to do port forwarding.

Now it doesn't seem hard, but it does seem confusing. Here's my current setup:

Average modem connected to an airport extreme. Modem in bridge mode, and Airport Extreme is using DHCP, however under the connetion sharing option it os under 'Bridge Mode'.

I want to change my connection sharing to 'Share a Public IP Address', as when selecting this a 'NAT' tab appears, where I can find Port Mapping, and I'm guessing this is what I want to configure for Port Forwarding.

However, when I select the option to share a public IP address, and click update, I get an error about conflicting DHCP addreses, pictured below;



I'm not sure what this is, and how to fix it. I just want speeds on public trackers to go faster, as they're pretty slow compared to private Trackers (an average private tracker can have a few seeders and give me top speeds, but a public torrent with tens of thousands of seeds gives me rather poor speeds. I know on public trackers you don't HAVE to seed, but you would think with tens of thousands of seeders, I'd find enough to max out my speed?)

Any help on my above problem and improving my torrent speed is appreciated.

mikey

Well, i don't have any experience with Airport Base Stations, but when i set up port forwarding on a number of other routers, its under "Virtual Servers".

With regards to the DHCP addresses, thats the range that the Airport will assign IP addresses to cumputers that used DHCP rather than specifying their own. Essentially, you'll want to give it a good range like:
10.0.0.2-10.0.0.99. Don't start at 10.0.0.1 since that's likely the router's IP. The thing is, this is not desirebale for Port Forwarding since you'll want to have a static address that way your torrent app won't have to keep requesting new setting via UPNP.

This might be helpful, i know its for windows, but its how i worked it out for my Macbook. I'm too tired to go into any further detail now, maybe when i wake up..after i decided to stop playing World at War.